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----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Mulder" <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu>
To: <geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 10:38 PM
Subject: "Virtual Hosting"
> I'd like to suggest that Geronimo should support running
> applications in a "sandbox". Which is to say, I'd like it to be able to
> run several different apps, where each app can see only its own JNDI
> entries, only its own DB pools, etc. That also means each app should be
> able to be packaged with its own config files / DDs. I don't mind if the
just like server cluster, but some environment context may be shared among
all these applications?
> server keeps an internal copy elsewhere, but I'd really like to be able to
> just give an ear with all the configs it needs and have Geronimo run it in
> a separate space from other apps.
>
> I guess this impinges in the JNDI discussion as well, in the sense
> that a JNDI request from a remote client would need to identify the
> application it's targeting, either via a suffix on the initial URL, or an
> additional context parameter, or something along those lines. So two
> different apps could each deploy something at "/Foo", and as long as the
> client specified which app it wanted to connect to, it would get the right
> one. This also lets different apps use different security realms, and
> still secure JNDI.
>
> Aaron
>
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